Juvenile or Adult? California Bill Would Raise Age for Prosecution from 18 to 20
A California lawmaker argues that 18- and 19-year-olds aren’t mature enough to do prison time if they break the law, and so she has submitted a bill that would treat them like juveniles.
Trump Administration Launches Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives
On Jan. 29, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing the first meeting of a White House task force to address the incidence of missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives.
January 2020 Council Meeting Updates
At its meeting in Philadelphia on January 16 and 17, the ALI Council reviewed drafts for ten projects.
Argument Analysis: Justices Debate Ability of Business That Did Not Sign Arbitration Agreement to Compel Arbitration
GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA is the Supreme Court’s first arbitration case of the 2019 term. For observers familiar with the arbitration docket in recent years, this case will seem unusual, because so few of the justices seem predisposed to compel arbitration.
The Denver Post Examines Recent Rulings on the Indian Child Welfare Act
Politicians, judges and social workers in Colorado are on the front lines of a brewing legal battle over a federal law that helps keep Native American children from being adopted outside their tribes.
2019 Report of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Task Force on Eyewitness Identifications
The Third Circuit Task Force on Eyewitness Identifications (Task Force) was created, in part, in response to the scientific developments in the field of eyewitness identification and the recognition that courts had begun to apply these developments in criminal cases.
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